Metro Councilman, downtown bar owner and attorney John Delgado and business partners Andrew Bayard and Christian Walther have announced plans for their latest entertainment venue: a Las-Vegas-style nightclub to be housed in the old Louisiana Theater Building at 336 N. Third St.
Delgado says the club will be a high-end operation with bottle service and the ability to accommodate a variety of touring musical acts, including bands and deejays. The club will have a capacity of between 650 and 700 patrons and will include seating on two floors.
“We’re very excited about it,” says Delgado, who has been working on the project for more than a year. “It will be a real boon for downtown. If you look at all the new residential stuff going on it’s just the right time for something like this.”
This will be the fourth nightclub for Delgado, Bayard and Walther. The partners also own Huey’s and Drafthouse, both on Third Street, as well as Brickyard South, which is on South Boulevard at Brickyard Street near River Road.
The partners say they will announce the name of the nightclub and reveal renderings next month. Construction is set to begin in March and is expected to take six months.
—Stephanie Riegel
